Abolishing Private Schools Will Hurt the Weakest in Society
The Left believes abolishing private schools will create equality. They are wrong. The winners would stay the same. Only the bill would change.
The Left believes abolishing private schools will create equality. They are wrong. The winners would stay the same. Only the bill would change.
The attack on private education is often presented as a crusade for equality. In reality, it is something quite different. Independent schools challenge some of the Left's deepest assumptions about society, proving that parental choice, competition and individual aspiration can outperform state control. That is why the campaign against them persists despite the costs, the consequences and the evidence. The target is not what independent schools do. The target is what they represent.
Modern education has become obsessed with exams, careers and economic utility while neglecting the deeper purpose of learning itself. As Britain abandons classical liberal education, a generation is growing up increasingly detached from history, literature and the intellectual traditions that once sustained Western civilisation.